Last updated: 14 september, 2009 - 15:56 GMT

Somalia

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Reports from Somalia say a number of foreign military helicopters have carried out a raid in the south of the country.

Two people are said to have been killed after a vehicle was attacked.

Details are still sketchy about who owns the helicopters.

The area is controlled by the al-Shabab militant group, which is believed to be holding a French agent kidnapped in July.

The French Defence ministry has denied suggestions that its forces carried out the raid.

Focus on Africa's Sophie Ikenye spoke to our correspondent Mohamed Olad Hassan on the line to Mogadishu.

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